United States History Student Edition

TOPIC 4 Albigence Waldo, from “Valley Forge, 1777–1778. Diary of Surgeon Albigence Waldo, of the Connecticut Line,” December 14, 1777 . . . . 106 Charles Cornwallis, from a 1781 letter in Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, 1859 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Pontiac, from a speech to Native American groups, 1763 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Virginia House of Burgesses, from Virginia Resolves of 1765 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 A Bostonian, from History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent, 1879 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 A Bostonian, from “Adams’ Minutes of Defense Evidence, Continued. 30 November 1770” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Daughters of Liberty, from “The Female Patriots. Address’d to the Daughters of Liberty in America,” 1768 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 George III, on keeping control of the colonies . 120 Archibald Hinshelwood, from a letter to Joshua Mauger, August 19, 1765 . . . . . . . . . . 122 “Address to the Ladies,” from the Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser, November 16, 1767 . . 122 “To the worthy inhabitants of the City of New-York,” 1773 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 “Tea, Destroyed by Indians,” December, 1773 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Nicholas Cresswell, from The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774–1777 . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Statement of Grievances, the First Continental Congress, from Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Patrick Henry, from a speech to the First Continental Congress, September 6, 1774 . . 127 Thomas Gage, from Order Given to Lt. Colonel Francis Smith, April 18, 1775 . . . . . . . . . 128 Thomas Paine, from Common Sense, 1776 . . . 131 Richard Henry Lee, from “Resolution Introduced in the Continental Congress by Richard Henry Lee Proposing a Declaration of Independence, June 7, 1776” . . . . . . . . .131 George Washington, from a letter to Colonel Benjamin Foster, July 22, 1776 . . . . . . . . 131 The Declaration of Independence, 1776 . . . . 133 John Adams, from a letter to James Warren, April 20, 1776 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 George Washington, from The History of Massachusetts, 1857 . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Nathan Hale, from Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull, 1848 . . . . 142

Joseph Plumb Martin, from A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, 1830 . . . . . . . . . 145 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, from General Von Steuben, 1937 . . . . . . . . . 146 Abigail Adams, from a letter to John Adams, May 7, 1776 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Lemuel Haynes, Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping, 1776 ������������������������������������������������� 148 William Livingston, from a letter to Samuel Allinson, July 25, 1778 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Petition to New Hampshire Legislature, November 12, 1779 . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 John Paul Jones, from Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Paul Jones, 1843 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the American Bill of Rights: A Bicentennial Commemoration, 1789–1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Declaration of Independence of the Blacks of St. Domingo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Joseph Plumb Martin, from A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, 1830 . . . . . . . . . 156 Boston King, from Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, A Black Preacher, 1798 . . . . . 156 Philip Freneau, from Some Account of the Capture of the Ship Aurora, 1780 . . . . . . 157 Esther De Berdt Reed, from “The Sentiments of an American Woman,” 1780 . . . . . . . . 158 Molly Gutridge, from “A New Touch on the Times,” 1779 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Anna Rawle, from “A Loyalist’s Account of Certain Occurrences in Philadelphia After Cornwallis’s Surrender at Yorktown,” 1781 . . . . . . . . 159 “To go—or not to go—is that the question?” 1783 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Phillis Wheatley, from “Liberty and Peace,” 1784 160 Charles Inglis, from The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776 . . . . . . . . . . 163 TOPIC 5 Benjamin Franklin, from a speech at the close of the Constitutional Convention, September 17, 1787 . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 James Madison, from Notes in Outline, Federal and State Government, September 1829 . . . . . 167 Articles II and III, from the Articles of Confederation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Article XIII, from the Articles of Confederation . 173 Richard Henry Lee, from Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, 1888 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 The Northwest Ordinance, July 13, 1787 . . . . 175

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